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With world events creeping closer and closer to the precipice of international mayhem, it would be nice to know that a superhero was ready to save the day. Not only do the starving in Africa need relief, but the angst and anxiety of wondering where the terrorists will next vent their rage on America and the West is exhausting. The growing nuclear club increases exponentially the chance of nuclear war and nuclear terrorism.
Many times in history humanity has sought for a "superman" to come and save the day, but he's never been more needed than today.
Hero emerges from the Depression
In the late 1930s and early 1940s a caped man of steel from the planet Krypton (a planet said to be full of light and brightness), was sent to challenge evil. The "Man of Steel" was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster when both were still in high school.
Siegel and Shuster were teenagers at a time called the Great Depression, when more than a quarter of a million U.S. teenagers lived on the road, hoping to find work to send money back home or simply because they felt they'd become a financial burden on their families (www.redboots.net).
The cover of the original Superman comic written by Siegel and Shuster in 1938 describes this imaginary superhero as able to "leap over skyscrapers, run faster than an express train, spring distances and heights, lifting and smashing tremendous weights; possessing an impenetrable skin."
These are the amazing attributes that Superman, champion of the helpless and oppressed, uses as he battles the forces of evil and injustice. Superman would be fitted with new capes and repackaged right up until the 21st century, his challenges growing with each new generation of villains.
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